Chef recipe fails on service resource -

hi chef recipes have started breaking when use service resource. whenever try use service resource start or stop service, chef run breaks following error:

typeerror     ---------     no implicit conversion of false array 

for example try start postfix service using following in recipe

service "postfix"       action [:enable, :start] end 

but when run recipe fails

* service[postfix] action enable      ================================================================================     error executing action `enable` on resource 'service[postfix]'     ================================================================================      typeerror     ---------     no implicit conversion of false array  error: service[postfix] (base::setup_mail line 54) had error: typeerror: no implicit conversion of false array 

this has started occurring recently, recipe had been working before without issues, , error not making sense me. have idea why might happening?

thanks

update

the issue because chef-client being installed during bootstrap v12, server still v11, when downgraded chef-client v11 chef-run went through without problem

thanks everyone's help